"Failing liver, ascending paralysis…" House was busy scribbling symptoms on the whiteboard. "No guesses? I thought that was what doctors were supposed to do. Ya know, find the cause of those symptom thingies." He scowled.

Cameron hadn't met his gaze since that night in the hospital room. Foreman rolled his eyes. At least he's still acting like normal, House thought. As for Chase, well, he was shaking his head, which was being held between his hands. House thought he saw him smirk.

"Fine, lunch break. But you all better be doctors when you get back in here. One hour. Make it a quick one." House watched as the ducklings filed out the door and down the corridor.

Chase was almost laughing. "Only a day after trying to kill himself and he's already griping about everything. That is so like him." He put on a very light attitude towards the whole event, but Chase was very, very glad that House was doing well. Yes, House was a pain in the ass, but he had some quality that Chase found kind of interesting. Irony? Possibly.

The ducklings decided to all take their break at the café across the street. This way, they could discuss the situation of last night, as well as put together some ideas about the diagnosis. No one wanted a grumpy House, although that was very hard not to have.

Wilson followed House to a table in the hospital cafeteria and sat down across from him. House was getting stares from every doctor in the room and Wilson could tell House was embarrassed about it. "Are you sure you want to eat in here? I mean, we could always go somewhere else?" An embarrassed House was always something that Wilson had wanted to see, but since the second he had, his heart went out to House. Of course House deserved humility; a hell of a lot of it. Still, Wilson couldn't stand to see his best friend so upset.

"No. It's fine in here", came House's grouchy reply.

Wilson sighed. House had declined because he didn't want anyone to think that he was a normal human being just like them. He would just have to rephrase the question and make it sound like they could eat somewhere else without House's discomfort being the cause.

"I have paperwork to do. I have to go to my office anyways. Join me?" That sounded much better.

"Sure."

Score one for Wilson.